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| it; they; this; that ** 它们 tāmen they (non-human) |
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| . 滂沱 pāngtuó torrential; streaming (tears) 沱茶 bowl-shaped compressed tea 沱若 tuóruò flowing down (tears) |
. ** 磨佗子 mótuózi an annoying person |
. 蹉跎 cuōtuó to slip and fall; miss a chance 磨跎 mótuó to waste time; idle about |
| . 陀螺 tuóluó top (toy); gyroscope |
be hunchbacked; camel 骆驼 luòtuo camel; blockhead 驼背 tuóbèi hunchback; humpback |
ostrich 鸵鸟 tuóniǎo ostrich 鹬鸵 yùtuó kiwi |
| lump 坨子 tuózi lump; heap |
girder 房柁 fángtuó girder; ridgepole |
stone roller 碾砣 niǎntuó n. roller 砣子 tuózi emery wheel |
| blush from drinking 酡然 tuórán flushed from drinking | ||
| rudder; helm 舵手 steersman pilot; helmsman 把舵 bǎduò to hold the rudder | ||
| n. snake; serpent ** | ||
| . 蛇蛇 yíyí facile (of words) ; leisurely | (see 讠+也 map) | |
** 它 was borrowed long ago as a phonetic-loan character for the third-person pronoun 他 'he, she, it'. Sometimes it was written 佗, which became 他. Only in modern times was a distinction made (in writing) between 他 he, 她 she, and 它 it.
** 佗 is a variant of 驼
** The ancient sounds of 蛇 and 它 (now shé and tā) were similar.